IIRC update (the Finder command) does the job, also. On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Mark Lively wrote: > On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Emmett Gray wrote: > >> I've found a bug (10.4.11) which is probably still in Leopard >> since I looked at the Leopard bug fix technote and it's not >> mentioned. I've reported the bug to Apple. >> > Looks like it is fixed in leopard. Not to surprising since the old > system event osax was built on top of FSRefs which are deprecated > in Leopard. > >> If the target folder of the "list folder" command has a name >> longer than 32 characters you get a "bad filename" error. I can't >> use the Finder to get the info because the very reason I'm needing >> the command for is to force the lazy Finder to update the contents >> of the folder! >> > I use touch to update the folder. > > set aFolder to choose folder > do shell script "touch ""ed form of posix path of aFolder > > -Mark > Who likes touching folders. >